I don’t think we have to sacrifice history and rush covering that part of the territory, I think that was exactly the mistake of AOE 4, I don’t think we need to rush and adopt new civilizations that I really don’t know how to merge into one state
? the thread is about rus’ reveal. Not about speaking about HRE, than I know.
My point is than Rus’ History is not something well known in western europe. But really important in term of legacy in eastern europe (for Ukraine, Russia, etc.)
Hope the Rus’ are accurate in the early ages, infantry having no swords and very low quality armor (cotton mainly, and cheap), as well as boevie kholopi - cheap horse archer unit. The Druzhina will be very well-armed and expensive. Then we get the Streltsy in some form or another.
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It seems only Mongols will get horse archer as UU.
Streltsy corp established only in 1560-1560 years is a little late from the game timeline.
" The first streltsy units were created by Ivan the Terrible sometime between 1545 and 1550 and armed with arquebuses."
In the trailer we see the streltsy holding the bardiches, and when we see some gameplay we can see the arqueber units.
Also we need this as a siege UU:
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ok may be in some other thread you can do that theres no problem in it
Abbasid Camel archers are very similar to horse archers.
They will likely be slower Cavalry Archers, with more HP and a damage bonus vs Cavalry.
and maybe more expensive.
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Not necessarily. Perhaps being slower will be drawback enough.
alas this seems to be 17th century, a little too far from Ivan. Just a musekt and separate berdysh it seems then
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What do you guys think? Will Russian units talk old Slavic at lower ages and than gradually switch to Russian later on?
Same could be done in future with Poland or any other Slavic nation if it gets into the game. They could speak same at start than diverge.
I think it would be cool.
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What century does this game start and end?
It is implied by the images with the unit gear and architecture, that the game starts roughly in the 900s and ends in the late 1500s.
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I see a some people here saying that they should bring Polish-Lithuanian union as a faction in the game, which i would hardly dissagre with, because these are two different factions, with many unique things, Lithuania is the last pagan state in europe, and in the 15th century being the largest state in europe. Poland is different from that even tho that at times the countries had an alliance. These two factions should be added, but they should be added separatly, not only because it makes sense historically, but also because no lithuanian would like to play a game where the times of lithuanian power are combined with Poland, which at the time wasn’t the reason for it being powerful. And i would say Rus is a fair choice as a first pick, because probably a lot of people who are from the region will be playing as Rus.
Btw, maybe any of you know the exact number of factions that will be added?
No one knows at this time
Like your icon BTW
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